Sounds are considered warm, cool, even cold. When a sound or combination is hot, you know it.
Listening for other sounds and ways to describe them we may find them wet, dry, light, heavy, metallic, silken, glassy, airy, ethereal. In terms of mood they might be called stormy, serene, highly charged, gloomy, bright, or anything related to the feeling they bring to the listener.
Composers and musicians always capitalize on these sensory images. Any examples that come to mind are illustrative, past or present, in any genre, with any type of instrumentation.
It is the capacity of the electronic music synthesizer to access and generate an abundance of sounds that may be manipulated to breathe life into these aural images that make it a marvelous tool for sound design and collage. And by marvelous, I mean evocative of magic.
Listening for other sounds and ways to describe them we may find them wet, dry, light, heavy, metallic, silken, glassy, airy, ethereal. In terms of mood they might be called stormy, serene, highly charged, gloomy, bright, or anything related to the feeling they bring to the listener.
Composers and musicians always capitalize on these sensory images. Any examples that come to mind are illustrative, past or present, in any genre, with any type of instrumentation.
It is the capacity of the electronic music synthesizer to access and generate an abundance of sounds that may be manipulated to breathe life into these aural images that make it a marvelous tool for sound design and collage. And by marvelous, I mean evocative of magic.
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